Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2008 21:38:45 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: Section mismatch on latest git |
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On Thu, 29 May 2008 00:01:28 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 26 May 2008 10:03:21 +0200 "Fabio Comolli" <fabio.comolli@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi. > > I don't know it it has been reported already: > > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x114bb): Section mismatch in reference from > > the function nopat() to the function .cpuinit.text:pat_disable() > > The function nopat() references > > the function __cpuinit pat_disable(). > > This is often because nopat lacks a __cpuinit > > annotation or the annotation of pat_disable is wrong. > > > > Config is in attachment. > > > > This should fix it: > > --- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c~arch-x86-mm-patc-nopat-should-be-__init > +++ a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c > @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ void __cpuinit pat_disable(char *reason) > printk(KERN_INFO "%s\n", reason); > } > > -static int nopat(char *str) > +static int __init nopat(char *str) > { > pat_disable("PAT support disabled."); > return 0; > _ > > > It turns out that this was harmless. However it might not have been - > I think that adding the ability to suppress all these warnings was a > mistake.
It certainly has caused me to stop looking for/at them. More a sin of omission than one of commission.
--- ~Randy "He closes his eyes and drops the goggles. You can't get hurt by looking at a bitmap. Or can you?"
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